Kategorie: 2019
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Back again
We’re back in Africa. „We“ – that’s a small team this year: Lore, Walter and Toyo. who celebrated (really?) his 30th birthday in April. In a garage at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro together with other two- and four-wheeled off-roaders from Toyota, Rover and BMW. „Africa“ – means only two countries this year, Tanzania and…
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Ready to go. Almost …
We spend two nights at Kili-House. On the one hand because nine months in a dusty garage makes a basic cleaning of Toyo necessary. Plus we have to buy the compulsory insurances, pay road tolls and stockpile beer, wine, water as well as noodles, apples, cookies as well as …. We only drove 5 km…
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Besuch der alten Dame
Finally we left. Not without loosing some nerves on the road: The east-west route from Moshi to Arusha took us more than 2 hours for 90 km. Long trucks in both directions did not allow long overtakings (Toyo is not a 300 hp Jaguar). After Arusha, where we headed north towards Kenya, it became calmer…
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JJs
Of course „=Out of Africa“ is one of the most romantic love stories in film history. More important for us at the moment: Here is also THE institution for Overlander: Jungle Junction. From the outside completely hidden behind high walls, here is the Campsite operated by a German (Chris) with perfectly equipped workshop and long…
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Maasai Mara (1): Lions
„Mara“ means „spotted“ in Maa, the Masai language, which describes the hilly savannah plain covered with acacias and bushes. We were so impressed last year by this one of the most beautiful nature reserves in the world that we had to come again. This time not in the „Triangle“, but in the eastern part of…
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Maasai Mara (2): The Great Migration
The Mara experiences the greatest animal wonder of the world, when every year about 2 million (!) wildebeest, zebras and Thomson gazelle move from the Serengeti (the southern continuation of the Mara in Tanzania) to the Mara and especially in September back again. We are clearly too late because I sacrificed September to other commitments.…
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Maasai Mara (3): Five Brothers
A day trip to the south of the Masai-Mara offers us picture book panoramas: Bright blue sky, yellow savanah and first green grass (rainy season started already). And then the culmination: We learned from John, our Maasai, that there is a group of five cheetahs in the park. They are supposed to lie somewhere, as…
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Maasai Mara (4): Visit to a Maasai Village
Another excursion with John: Together we walk in the noon heat to a Maasai village. If a Masai tells you that it’s only a short walk: Don’t trust him! These people are used to walking up to 200 km a day and hunting antelopes until they collapse from exhaustion. But we can shower later. With…
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Maasai Mara (5): Antelope Attack
We sit in our camp (quite lonely) at breakfast when an eland antelope appears. At first this biggest antelope (150-200 kg) is only interested in leaves. Then it gets closer. Lore immediately puts a lot of the breakfast stuff back to the car while I try to photograph and film this unique encounter. On the…
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Maasai Mara (6): Auf Wiedersehen …
The luxury of space, peacefulness and freedom …. Der Luxus von Weite, Frieden und Freiheit